Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.- Bono

It's hard to believe, hard to be a believer,when you see the way the things are in the world.But I am a believer!- Bono

There are colors and feelings and emotional terrainthat we occupy that is ours and ours alone.- Bono

As a rock star, I have two instincts,I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.I have a chance to do both.- Bono

I feel exuberant. I don't pretend.- Bono

Religion often gets in the way of God.- Bono

It's so sweet, I feel like my teethare rotting when I listen to the radio.- Bono

You have to open yourself up,you have to be raw;and you have to reveal yourself,and sometimes it's very difficult.- Bono

Religion can be the enemy of God.- Bono

I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.I have a chance to do both.- Bono

Don't lie down. Get up.- Bono

People should be angry about a lot of thingsand the peace-and-love thingdoesn't sit comfortably with me at all.- Bono

U2 is an original species...there are colours and feelings and emotional terrainthat we occupy that is ours and ours alone.- Bono

Everywhere I look, I see the evidence of a creator.But I don't see it as religion,which has cut Irish people in two.I don't see Jesus Christ as beingin any part of a religion.Religion to me is almost like when God leaves -and people devise a set of rules to fill the space.- Bono

I come from Ireland and I've seen the damage of religious warfare.I am a believer. I don't wear the badge on the outsidebut it is on the inside.- Bono

Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd.In the past, U2 was trying to duck that.Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.- Bono

We can, if we get up off our ass, change the world.- Bono

U2 is an original species...there are colors and feelings and emotional terrainthat we occupy that is ours and ours alone.- Bono

You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream.But idealism allied with pragmatism,with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit,is very exciting.It's very real.It's very strong.- Bono

So what we're talking about here is human rights.The right to live like a human.The right to live, period.And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedentedthreat to human dignity and equality.- Bono

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice.It makes a farce of our idea of equality.It mocks our pieties.It doubts our concern.It questions our commitment.Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa,and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever beallowed to happen anywhere else.- Bono

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.The church is going to have to become the conscienceof the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world -and stop being its apologist.- Bono

The fact is that ours is the first generation thatcan look disease and extreme poverty in the eye,look across the ocean to Africa, and say this,and mean it.We do not have to stand for this.A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.- Bono

Africa is a continent in flames.And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us,we would all do more to put the fire out.We're standing around with watering cans,when what we really need is the fire brigade.- Bono

I'm actually starting to like more and more peoplewho have convictions that are unpopular.Now at what point does an unpopular convictioninterfere with your own human rights?Forced female circumcision, for instance.The Catholic Church's stance on contraception.The list goes on. You know, God has some really weird kids,and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.- Bono

What turns me on about the digital age,what excited me personally, is that you have closedthe gap between dreaming and doing.You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song,you needed a studio and a producer.Now, you need a laptop.- Bono

Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind.Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said,'Would you take my son with you?' He knew,in Ireland, that his son would live,and that in Ethiopia,his son would die.- Bono

No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.Heroes set their own course.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The world is moved along, not onlyby the mighty shoves of its heroes,but also by the aggregate of tiny pushesof each honest worker.- Helen Keller

Not all Heroes wear capes.- On an Apple Inc. "Genius Bar" T-shirt

If you want to be heroic,Don't emulate your heroes,learn from them.Heroes don't follow anyone,they set their own course.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie